Real estate photography and video in Delta

Delta is usually written about as a single place and it does not behave like one. Ladner is a village core with older character stock and a working waterfront alongside it. Tsawwassen is coastal, more suburban, and runs to larger homes with a genuine ocean influence. Between and around them sits a substantial amount of farmland.

Those three want different things. Character homes in Ladner reward detail. Tsawwassen properties are often about outlook and setting. Farmland is a parcel question, which means aerials that establish boundaries, frontage and outbuildings.

The first question is which Delta. Ladner, Tsawwassen and the farmland between them are three different briefs, and the package that suits one is wrong for the others. A village character home wants detail coverage. A coastal property wants outlook and timing. A parcel wants aerials.

The second question is whether there is a working component to the property. Barns, outbuildings, water and secondary dwellings all change value and all tend to be missing from the photographs, which is exactly why we ask about them at booking rather than noticing them on arrival.

The third is timing. Tsawwassen properties with a western outlook are worth shooting late rather than at whatever hour happens to be free, and on the farmland the light across open ground in the last hour of the day does more for a parcel than any amount of midday clarity.